POLITICS OF CARE
Els Vervloesem
This chapter discusses the politics of care. The question of a politics of care urges designers to acknowledge the interdependencies of design with the world outside. The chapter argues that a deeply engaged, critical and situated design approach is necessary to rebuild a common understanding of how, why, for whom and what, where and when, we need to tackle today’s challenges and to develop a culture of mutual care. In this respect, many lessons can be learned from design processes that are, in one way or another, oriented towards future change. Unfortunately, a lot of this practice-based knowledge remains implicit or only resides in the heads of the involved parties. Therefore, this chapter aims to reflect on how designers actively engage in collective ‘caring’ practices in concrete case studies.
Sub-initiatives
CONSTRUCTLAB - BUILDING THE INVISIBLE
‘DISplay’ is a project initiated by Constructlab and Z33 in the summer of 2019. The project aime...
WEGENWERKEN - Mapping as caring for, about and with the slow city
The WegenWerken project was a proposition to explore slow roads as spaces where people would gather ...
NORTH-SOUTH LIMBURG - A BICYCLE LIBRARY AS PART OF A PLATFORM ON MOBILITY (A Caring Platform-approach)
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Within the context of the complex project North-South Limburg project (Studio NZL, 2019), which focu...